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UNIVERSITY
Student attacked in northeast Athens. A 21-year-old
University student told Athens police she fought off an attacker early
Thursday morning. The student said she accepted a ride from a 5-
foot-10-inch, 180-pound black male, who drove her to a secluded area
in northeast Athens. She jumped out of the dark-colored car and ran.
But the man caught her, threw her to the ground and began choking
her, according to police reports. She kicked him in the groin and
escaped. She got a nde from a passing driver, who took her to the
Athens Police Station. Public Information Officer Hilda Spratlin said
the case is urder investigation and no further information could be
released.
Golf course to enforce alcohol ban. Golfers are going to have
to wait until they get off the course to enjov a cold one due to new
enforcement of a policy prohibiting beer and alcohol at the University
course. Golf course employees will now be watching foij)layers trying
to take alcohol onto the course. Pro-shop manager Jeff Maynor said
the first time a golfer is caught with alcohol, he will be reprimanded.
The alcohol may be confiscated if it appears the golfer is trying to hide
it. A second offense will result in expulsion from the course for the
day, and a third offense will result in permanent suspension. The
enforcement is designed to make the course policy more consistent
with the University as a whole, Maynor said.
Educators to learn new teaching methods. German and
American educators will use U.S. and European methods of teaching
mathematics as part of a two-year research program at the
University. The project is funded by a $580,000 National Science
Foundation grant and will help future teachers teach math in high
schools, said Alphonse Buccino, dean of the College of Education.
Math education majors rarely take classes studying the math
concepts they will be teaching, said Thomas Cooney, professor of
mathematics education and director of the project. ‘The Germans
bring particular expertise in translating higher mathematics into
mathematics that is meaningful to teachers,” Cooney said.
Seminar to deal with education and politics. The isth
annual Taft Seminar for Teachers will be held July 9-20. The
seminar, which deals with education and politics, is funded by the
Taft Institute and orchestrated by University staff. Thirty
scholarships have been offered for teachers across the state for the
two-week course. “It’s not just a political science course and not just
an education course, but it’s a combination,” said Seminar Director
Mary Hepburn. The majority of the events — including lectures by
University professors, goverment officials and a variety of other
speakers involved in politics — will take place at the Ramada Inn.
The seminar is non-partisan, and its basic role will be to arouse
interest among teachers so that class instruction becomes interesting
to both teachers and students.
■ STATE
ATLANTA (AP): Georgia students score high. Georgia’s
students tested above their national counterparts for the third year
this spring in tests given in the second, fourth, seventh and ninth
grades, state education officials said. Georgia gives the standardized
tests, known as “norm-referenced tests,” in the four grades in March
and April. This year, Georgia second graders scored at the 70th
percentile —- meaning ahead of 70 percent of their counterparts in a
nationally representative group, state education officials said. That
was the same score the second grade class had a year ago. Fourth
graders scored at the 59th percentile, also the same as 1989. Seventh
graders came in at the 60tn percentile, up from the 55th last year,
while ninth graders came in at the 56th percentile, up from the 54th
in 1989.
MARIETTA (AP): Potts found guilty — again.ACobb
County Superior Court jury Monday found convicted killer Jack
Howard Potts guilty in his kidnapping retrial .Potts was convicted of
kidnapping in Cobb County and murder in Forsyth County in the
May 1975 execution-style slaying of 24-year-old Michael Priest, who
was abducted from his in-laws’ home in Cobb County .Potts’ death
sentence on the murder charge was set aside by a federal court, but he
was resentenced to death last year by a ounty juiy. The state
Supreme Court affirmed the sentence in March 1989, but his latest
execution date was canceled is year.Potts received the death penalty
on the kidnapping charge as well, but that sentence was overturned
by a federal judge in 90. His retrial on the kidnapping charge began
Friday in Cobb County.His sentencing hearing is scheduled to begin
Tuesday.
DALTON (AP): Chemicals spill into Dalton creek.
Firefighters stopped a leak of tropionic acid at a Whitfield County
chemical plant Sunday night, but not until some got into a creek.
First reports from the state Environmental Protection Division were
that 800 gallons of the chemical had spilled. Four firefighters were
treated, probably for heat exhaustion, at the command post, and two
other people, who were not identified, were taken to hospitals
complaining of headaches, Whitfield County Fire dispatcher Tim
Suits said. The acid was leaking from a storage tank at Arrow
Industries, on U.S. 41. Emergency workers pumped out the tank and
plugged the leak, he said. Suits said fumes from the chemical can
cause respiratory problems and can cause bums on skin exposed to
the acid.
NATION
ATLANTA (AP): PTL to have rebirth. The Rev. Morris
Cerullo said Sunday his planned takeover of Heritage USA park
outside Charlotte, N.C., will turn what had been meant for evil into a
“world-wide testimony.” Cerullo is awaiting a federal bankruptcy
judge’s approval of his $45 million offer for the 2,200-acre Christian
theme park begun by former television evangelist Jim Bakker.
Cerullo, a Pentecostal evangelist, said God will use the park to train
and equip an army to take over the world. He addressed to 4,000
cheering, clapping worshipers in the Atlanta Civic Center. Cerullo
has put $7 million into escrow and secured approval to purchase
Bakker’s PTL satellite television network.
WASHINGTON (AP): U.S. falling deeper in debt. The
United States tightened its grip on the title of world’s largest debtor
nation in 1989, ending the year with a net debt of $663.7 billion, up a
sharp 25 percent from the previous year. The latest figures, based on
data collected by the Commerce Department, are certain to heighten
the emotional debate over whether the United States is losing control
of its financial destiny to foreigners. The Commerce Department
report showed that U.S. holdings of overseas assets rose by $146.9
billion last year to $1,412 trillion, a gain of 11.6 percent. But foreign
holdings in the United States climbed at an even faster pace of 15.6
percent, rising by $279.6 billion to $2,076 trillion.
UGA TODAY
Exhibitions
• “Expressions: An Internationa]
Tour* will be on display at the
Georgia Museum of Art until
July 29. The exhibit is a
combination of the collections of
the museum and the art
department.
• Now on permanent display at
the Georgia Museum of Art are
selected 19th and 20th Century
American paintings from its
collection.
• Drawings by Mark Podwal
from 1978 to 1989 will be
presented at the Georgia
Museum of Art from July 7 to
Aug. 5. The 46 drawings in the
exhibition titled “Ink and
Inklings: Mark Podwal, Master
of the True Line” was organized
by the Mount Holyoke College
Art Museum.
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Include specific meeting location,
speakers title and topic, and a
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phone number. Items are printed
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Because space is limited, long
announcements are shortened.
New computers for graphics
Lanny Webb: demonstrates high tech graphic capabi-
lites on the art department’s new computers that will
better prepare students for the job market
By PATRICK FLANIGAN
Staff Writer
A new computer graphics lab in
the Visual Arts Annex will make
University students more market
able in the field, said Lanny Webb,
associate professor of graphic de
sign.
The $110,000 lab contains 10
Macintosh 2CX work stations that
can produce both screen and print
color images.
The computers use design pro
grams such as Adobe Illustrator
and Quark XPress to produce
images which were formerly done
by hand.
This method is cost-effective and
fast, so many graphic design com
panies are using the computers as
aids, Webb said.
Because the use of computers is
relatively new, some veteran de
signers are having to take time
away from their work to learn how
to use them. As a result, Webb said
companies are hiring younger
people who have computer know),
edge.
"It’s almost imperative that you
use the computer before you go out
into the field,” said Elaine Tate, a
senior graphic design major.
Tate was enrolled in a special in
troductory class only offered to
graphic design majors spring
quarter.
Webb wanted as many students
as possible to get experience before
graduating.
“This is state-of-the-art material
and we feel extremely fortunate to
have it,” Tate said.
Webb said Macintosh was
chosen based on a survey by the
National Association of Desk Top
Publishers, which found that 75
percent of graphic design firms use
these computers.
Campus bus drivers might be scarce in the fall
By PATRICK FLANIGAN
Staff Writer
A new federal law concerning
the issuance of commercial drivers’
licenses is beginning to affect the
training procedures for student
bus drivers at Campus Transit.
Students who want to drive a
bus on campus must now submit a
federal application along with a
$35 fee to be approved for a Class B
Commercial Drivers’ License. The
applicant’s driving record is then
reviewed in all 50 states, a process
which can take three to four
months.
This has created a huge backlog
of applicants, said George Stafford,
manager of UGA Auxiliary Serv
ices, and hiring students has be
come more difficult.
The Class B license, developed
by the federal government, will re
place the Class 3 license presently
required for passenger vehicles
weighing over 26,000 pounds, said
Curtis Bause, Chief of Licensing at
the Georgia Highway Patrol in
Clarke County.
The new license will be manda
tory in all states by April 1, 1992,
Bause said, but Georgia has begun
to issue them this year.
After submitting the applica
tion, a student with a clean driving
record and no commercial driving
experience will have 30 days to
apply for a test for the Class B li
cense or for a learner’s Bus Permit
(Class B.P.). Due to stipulations in
the new federal law, the University
cannot hire student drivers until
they have passed the Class B test.
‘This is a whole new kink in our
system,” said Bill Fox, Superinten
dent of Campus Transit. “We can’t
hire a new driver unless he’s
passed the test, and if he’s never
driven a forty-foot bus, he’s not
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going to pass the test.”
Once a student has a Class B.P.
permit, he or she will be hired as a
student laborer and trained on
campus to take the test, Fox said.
The test has three parts: basic
skills, vehicle knowledge and a
road test (conducted in Hull, Ga.).
Students currently working as
drivers won’t have to take the test
under the new federal require
ments until their present license
expires, Fox said.
Bause said persons with two
years driving experience will only
have to take the written test.
Forty-five to 60 student drivers
will be needed in the fall, Fox said.
Thirty-three presently-licensed
students will be returning, he said,
and he hopes to have 15 new
drivers trained and licensed.
‘That will give me the bottom
side of that number,” Fox said, but
that still may not be enough.
As long as it takes three to four
months for the initial application
to clear all 50 states, the present
system is going to make it difficult
for students to apply as drivers,
Fox said. Training will begin in
July for students who applied in
February.
'This could cause a re-evalua
tion of the number of student
drivers we use,” Fox said.
CORRECTION
An article In Thursday's edition of The Red and Black contained
incorrect information. Kappa Alpha Psi fraternity does carry
canes at certain times. The canes, however, were not used in a
recent fight at McWhorter Hall.
It is the policy of The Red and Black to correct errors of fact
that appear in its news columns. Corrections usually appear
on page 2.
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